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A Candid Inquiry into the Controversies among Evangelicals · §212

Annotatio III §.III: Formula words speak of action or use — Paul’s ‘bread we break’ is communion of Christ’s body, not bread outside the use

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The words clearly speak of action or use — as Paul says expressly of use or action: the bread we break is the communion of the body of Christ.

That cannot mean bread outside the use; take it this way: this bread is the thing by which communion of Christ’s body is exhibited to us — and so speak the older writers and chief Fathers in the Church.

Latin

Verba clarè loquuntur de actione seu usu: sicut & Paulus expressè de usu seu Actione inquit: Panis quem frangimus, est Communio Corporis Christi. Id enim de Pane extra usum intelligi non potest, sed hôc modo accipiendum est; hic Panis est res illa, quâ nobis Communio Corporis Christi exhibetur, & sic loquuntur veteres scriptores & Patres praecipui in Ecclesia.

About this text

Samuel Strimesius — Prefatio through Controversiae Post Lutherum Controv. III-XIII + XV Tolerantia, Hexades Annotationum Prooemium and Annotatio I through Decem Theses / Francus plus Annotatio II §.I-§.VI and Annotatio III §.I–§.VII (through Cassellanum 1661) from Ingenua in Controversias Evangelicorum (Frankfurt an der Oder, 1708). Honest partial; Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio III §.VIII+ fruits / §.IX+, Hexades theses body, deeper Controversiae / Part II remain.

English follows the locked 1708 Francofurti ad Viadrum Latin of Prefatio §I–II, Crimina defenses through III, Part I Protheoria through Controversiae Obices/Historia/Varii gradus, Formula Discord/Disparitas, Ulterius confirmatur / Classes / Formula protest / triplex differentia, Coena Domini Controversiae Priores through Precariae Hypotheses (Controv. print pp. 34–40), Controversiae Post Lutherum Natae Controv. III–XV tip (providence through De Tolerantia mutua; Controv. print pp. 40–78), Hexades Annotationum Prooemium H.I–§.III (Hexades print pp. 1–4 / PDF ~182–185), and Annotatio I De Augustana Confessione §.I–§.VIII tip (Hexades print pp. 5–24+ / PDF ~186–205+), reconstructed from Google Books PDF page images (ONB copy, id 3epYAAAAcAAJ) with pdftotext as check. No modern English was copied. Sister Halle digitization of Ingenua in Arminianismum (DOI 10.25673/65287) remains Anubis-blocked — skipped; Controversias only. Prefatio silence reasons, Annotatio I §.IX+, Hexades theses body beyond §.VIII, and remainder of Controversiae / folio remain.

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